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Neoliberalism & Critical Adult Literacy Education: Impact and Implications
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-18)
Discussions about education tend to revolve around K-12 schooling; adult education is generally
not a part of the conversation even though it was an incubator of social change and progress at
many points in history. Much ...
Students' Mathematical Beliefs Implicitly Learned Through Assessment
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-15)
Students come to beliefs about what mathematics is through a host of factors. One of these is through the way that they are assessed. Through summative, standardized achievement tests, students are evaluated on what it is ...
Where the Magic Begins: The Nexus of Commercially-Given Narratives, Pretend Play, and Literacy Learning
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016)
While research has suggested that pretend play can give children invaluable experience in
such literary practices as story ideation, creation, and renegotiation, character development, and reading and writing rehearsal, ...
Designing Opportunities for Family Engagement within Elementary Schools Serving Latino Immigrant Populations
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-22)
Latino immigrant students and families are among the fastest growing populations in the United States, but are among the most academically vulnerable groups. Though they initially enter the country brimming with hope and ...
Play as a Model for the Middle Grades
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)
Play in the lives of children of all ages is on the decline. This decline is even more dramatic in the middle grades, as in this context, play is almost non-existent and has been replaced with a rise in negative qualities ...
Black Girls’ Experiences in Schools: Adopting an Alternative, Strengths-Based Model to Discipline
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)
Although research on Black students disproportionality in suspensions and expulsions has been conducted since the 1970s, it has mainly centered Black male students (Smith-Evans et al., 2014). For decades, there has been ...
A Literacy Coach's Role in Professional Learning Communities in Elementary Schools
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)
Effective professional development for teachers has been a controversial topic in education for many years. Schools beg to answer the question: how do we continue to educate teachers so that student learning will increase? ...
Beyond the Guided Reading Table: Independent Literacy Tasks
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)
Designing an Intergenerational Literacy Program for Teen Parents and their Children
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-15)
Intergenerational literacy programs (i.e. family literacy programs) seek to raise the literacy level of both parent and child by linking their education and treating them as a learning unit. Though intergenerational ...
Writing the Way to Reading
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)
This capstone examines the possibilities of writing instruction to support the reading development of young children in late preschool through early first grade who are just beginning to understand the alphabetic principle. ...